Example sentences of "[vb past] an [noun sg] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the following evening , her plan laid , Joan again found an excuse to retire early and put the first part of the scheme into action . |
| 2 | For example , when discussing the passage from matriliny to patriliny , Engels [ p. 119 ] echoes Morgan 's formulation in the following way:s ‘ Thus , on the one hand , in proportion as wealth increased ( as a result of the domestication of animals ) it made the man 's position in the family more important than the woman 's , and on the other hand created an impulse to exploit this strengthened position in order to overthrow , in favour of his children , the traditional order of inheritance . |
| 3 | The finding of HLA associations with severe P. falciparum malaria provided an opportunity to test such a ‘ reverse immunogenetic ’ approach to identifying an immune response to the malarial parasite of protective importance . |
| 4 | The magistrates ' courts provided an opportunity to do this while simultaneously bolstering flagging markets for solicitors , who were feeling the economic pinch of a depressed property and commercial market . |
| 5 | The research provided an opportunity to study social workers in a role much beloved of politicians and policy advisers in recent times , that of enablers ( rather than direct providers ) and social care planners . |
| 6 | In 1978 , in an attempt to wipe the slate clean , Pinochet declared an amnesty to cover all human rights abuses since the coup . |
| 7 | Hill had his critics — he still has — and they were quick to say that he showed an unwillingness to get stuck in , yet all the early season races were led at some point by the quiet man bearing the colours of the London Rowing Club on his helmet , just as his father had . |
| 8 | On Dec. 16 the Israeli Cabinet approved an order to deport 415 Palestinians , all alleged Hamas supporters , to Lebanon in retaliation for the killing of Toledano and the other Israeli military personnel during December . |
| 9 | Held , granting the application , that the Act of 1987 placed the Bank of England under a wide public duty to supervise deposit-taking businesses , the fulfilment of which often required it to take urgent action in the interests of those whom the Act was designed to protect ; that a notice from the Bank of England under section 39(3) ( a ) of the Act of 1987 requiring production of documents overrode an injunction restraining that bank from disclosure of the documents to a third party , and the existence of an injunction did not constitute a reasonable excuse under section 39(11) for failure to comply with the section 39 notice ; and that the injunction should not , in any event , be interpreted as prohibiting compliance with the notice ; that it was proper for such a notice to specify the documents to which it applied by class rather than individually ; and that , accordingly , the defendants should be directed to comply with the notice ( post , pp. 717G–H , 718C , 719B–C , 721C , 722C ) . |
| 10 | King 's Regulations allowed an officer to have outside accommodation and , if the Colonel-in-Chief did n't forbid it , it was none of ‘ Bythe-book ’ Campbell 's business . |
| 11 | It began an attempt to do this in several policy documents . |
| 12 | Belgium and Hungary in early November 1989 signed an accord to allow limited military co-operation , the first such agreement between a Warsaw Pact state and NATO member ; King Baudouin visited Hungary in June 1990 . |
| 13 | August : South African President de Klerk the first South African head of state to visit the island , signed an agreement to expand economic relations . |
| 14 | Visits to Hungary and Czechoslovakia by Soares in late 1989 indicated an intention to acquire some influence in the transformed Eastern Europe and to seize fresh economic opportunities . |
| 15 | The proposal also indicated an intention to devote one corner of the library to a display area , in which departments or faculties would be able to mount exhibitions related directly to the topics or themes of project-work . |
| 16 | One example might be where a newborn child developed an infection requiring special care , but recovered in a few days . |
| 17 | They spent an hour descending one side of a large valley , only to take twice as long ascending the other side . |
| 18 | In May 1991 , justices made an order committing two children , who had been living with their mother following the separation of their parents , to the care of the local authority . |
| 19 | Police and troops made an attempt to recapture Red House on July 29 , but were ordered back by the Prime Minister who , along with several other hostages , had been wired with explosive charges . |
| 20 | Mrs Frizzell made an effort to sound normal . |
| 21 | He made an effort to sound positive , trying to seize the initiative . |
| 22 | She made an effort to sound relaxed . |
| 23 | In the taxi , while he was dropping her at her small house in Fulham , she made an effort to regain some inch of the indispensable contact she had squandered , but there seemed no way of doing it . |
| 24 | She made an effort to recall all he had told her during the previous ride , and paid attention to the way she sat , as well as to the positions of her hands , elbows , knees and heels . |
| 25 | She made an effort to feel some true sympathy , but it was difficult — she supposed that she would n't be able to experience compassion in a deep and real sense until she 'd had some children , since only matters like the putting down of young greyhounds brought tears to her eyes . |
| 26 | Albert Bandura devised an experiment to show this , which also highlighted observational learning , the ability to learn new behaviours by watching the behaviour of others . |
| 27 | They were rather better off than most , I think , and they owned an inn called New Spittal , between Bowes and Brough , over to the west . |
| 28 | GDA also led an initiative to allow Scottish companies to identify opportunities in the defence market , still the largest single market in the UK . |
| 29 | At the report stage of the Education Reform Bill , Mr Heseltine and Mr Tebbit tabled an amendment proposing outright abolition of the ILEA . |
| 30 | Indeed , we were most disappointed he squandered an opportunity to improve local government services by encouraging a superficial debate over boundaries . |